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A mysterious white-skinned tribe, which uses parrots to warn of approaching strangers, has been seen in Indonesia's remote Irian Jaya province, the official Antara news agency said yesterday. Villagers in the Bintumi region, south of the mainly unexplored Bird's Head Peninsula in western Irian Jaya, saw members of the tribe, described as tall and white-skinned, last month, Antara said. "The unidentified tribe is believed to be living in a small settlement near the upper reaches of the Wiriagar River," the agency quoted a schoolteacher in Bintumi town as saying. "They were seen last month by villagers seeking firewood in the jungle." The tribesmen had tame parrots which would warn of approaching strangers, at which point they would vanish into the dense jungles, it said. Efforts are being made to check the reports, but the area is remote. Most Irianese are dark and ethnically related to the people of Papua New
Guinea. The Times, 1 July 1996
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